Maria Mitchell Quotes

• Tenemos un hambre de la mente que pide conocimiento de todo lo que nos rodea, y cuanto más adquirimos, mayor es nuestro deseo; cuanto más vemos, más somos capaces de ver.

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  Inspirational, Change, Educational

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• Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

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  Stars, Space, Trying

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• I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

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  Perseverance, Ordinary, Capacity

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• No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

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  Wisdom, Should, Asks

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Toda fórmula que expresa una ley de la naturaleza es un himno de alabanza a Dios.

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  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Derecho

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

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  Imagination, Needs, Questioning

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• No hay cosmético para la belleza como la felicidad.

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  Felicidad, Feliz, Belleza

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• The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We learn to live in the universe as a part of it; we cannot seperate ourselves from it - our every act connects us with it - our every act affects the whole. Standing under the canopy of stars and remembering their presence you could scarcely do a petty deed, or think a wicked thought.

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  Stars, Thinking, Wicked

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• How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

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  Believe, Book, People

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• Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

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  Arte

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"

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  Science, Needs, Half

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

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  Soul, Nerves, World

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

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  Giving, Study, Habit

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

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  Circles, Numbers, Spheres

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• When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

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  Stars, Caring, Perspective

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

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  Country, Travel, Inspiration

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

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  Eye, Rainbow, Shadow

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

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  Observation, Activity, Immense

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

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  Women, Overcoming, Path

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

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  Stars, Flower, Autumn

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• Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

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  Aceptación, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

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  Science, Phrases, Absurdity

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

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  People, Disappoint, People Disappoint

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

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  Yesterday, Catholic, Church

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• To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

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  Libro, Escritura, Ejercicio

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